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Job 3:10

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because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

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For the Lord had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

“Today also my complaint is bitter, his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

“Why did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?

Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning;

Remove vexation from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb for ever great.

and, although he loved Hannah, he would give Hannah only one portion, because the Lord had closed her womb.